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Extreme   /ɛkstrˈim/   Listen
adjective
Extreme  adj.  
1.
At the utmost point, edge, or border; outermost; utmost; farthest; most remote; at the widest limit.
2.
Last; final; conclusive; said of time; as, the extreme hour of life.
3.
The best of worst; most urgent; greatest; highest; immoderate; excessive; most violent; as, an extreme case; extreme folly. "The extremest remedy." "Extreme rapidity." "Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire."
4.
Radical; ultra; as, extreme opinions. "The Puritans or extreme Protestants."
5.
(Mus.) Extended or contracted as much as possible; said of intervals; as, an extreme sharp second; an extreme flat forth.
Extreme and mean ratio (Geom.), the relation of a line and its segments when the line is so divided that the whole is to the greater segment is to the less.
Extreme distance. (Paint.) See Distance., n., 6.
Extreme unction. See under Unction. Note: Although this adjective, being superlative in signification, is not properly subject to comparison, the superlative form not unfrequently occurs, especially in the older writers. "Tried in his extremest state." "Extremest hardships." "Extremest of evils." "Extremest verge of the swift brook." "The sea's extremest borders."


noun
Extreme  n.  
1.
The utmost point or verge; that part which terminates a body; extremity.
2.
Utmost limit or degree that is supposable or tolerable; hence, furthest degree; any undue departure from the mean; often in the plural: things at an extreme distance from each other, the most widely different states, etc.; as, extremes of heat and cold, of virtue and vice; extremes meet. "His parsimony went to the extreme of meanness."
3.
An extreme state or condition; hence, calamity, danger, distress, etc. "Resolute in most extremes."
4.
(Logic) Either of the extreme terms of a syllogism, the middle term being interposed between them.
5.
(Math.) The first or the last term of a proportion or series.
In the extreme as much as possible. "The position of the Port was difficult in the extreme."





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"Extreme" Quotes from Famous Books



... for a moment. He seemed to pant for breath. A ray of moonlight striking down upon his face showed it to be deadly white. His attitude bespoke the extreme of ...
— The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn - A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot • Evelyn Everett-Green
... wiping his streaming eyes on the sleeve of his coat, in a state of extreme exhaustion, caught sight of that which lay just beyond him, and he saw that it was a man crawling down ...
— A Maid of the Silver Sea • John Oxenham
... union with the Princes, and had sent a deputy to the Parliament of Paris, who had orders to see neither the King nor the ministers, and that the whole province was disposed for a revolt. The Cardinal was in extreme consternation, and commended himself to the favour of the meanest man of the Fronde ...
— Marguerite de Navarre - Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois Queen of Navarre • Marguerite de Navarre
... indignant lamentations over his abject condition—of impudent laudations of the blameless integrity of his career—of grovelling and ineffectual efforts and supplications to appease and eradicate the hatred of Philip—and of vociferous cries for relief from penury and famine. "I am in extreme want, having exhausted the assistance of all my friends, and no longer knowing where to find my daily bread," is the terrible confession of the once favourite minister of the most powerful monarch in Europe. He never touched the ground, or even ...
— Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 • Various
... The country suffers, yes, but it still hopes and trusts and will only rebel when it has lost its patience, that is, when those who govern it wish it to do so, and that time is yet distant. I myself will not follow you, never will I resort to such extreme measures while ...
— The Social Cancer - A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere • Jose Rizal


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